Ellen G. White Quotes

It is an amiable part of human nature, that we should love our animals; it is even better to love them to the point of folly, than not to love them at all.

Anytime you work with animals, you begin to see more humanity in them.

I love animals. I love being around them.

We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.

Pets have more love and compassion in them than most humans.

The more self-aware an animal is, the more empathetic it tends to be.

Animals are very easy to love and be friends with.

The question is not, 'Can they reason?' nor, 'Can they talk?' but rather, 'Can they suffer?'

I've just always loved animals.

We are not the only animal that mourns; apes do, and elephants, and dogs. Yet we are the only one that tortures.

If dogs could talk it would take a lot of the fun out of owning one.

You cannot share your life with a dog, as I had done in Bournemouth, or a cat, and not know perfectly well that animals have personalities and minds and feelings.

I grew up with lots of animals and I related more to them than I did to people. I feel a lot of empathy for them.

I think that sometimes we open our hearts a little more easily to animals than we do to each other.

I'm fascinated by animals and couldn't live without Dewy, my Boston bulldog.

The deeper minds of all ages have had pity for animals.

Animals have always left me with a curiosity about human nature. I trust animals more than most people.

I think we learn some of the greatest lessons in life from animals, whether it's love, suffering, or the value of silence.

The higher animals are in a sense drawn into Man when he loves them and makes them (as he does) much more nearly human than they would otherwise be.

Nowadays we don't think much of a man's love for an animal; we laugh at people who are attached to cats. But if we stop loving animals, aren't we bound to stop loving humans too?

Animals make us Human.

Anybody knows who lives with animals, they teach you more about what it is to be a good human than most people: patience, goodheartedness, enthusiasm, presence, forgiveness, focus, restfulness, honesty.

Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral.

Poor little Foal of an oppressed race! I love the languid patience of thy face.

We cannot have two hearts, one for the animals and one for men. In cruelty towards the former and cruelty to the latter there is no difference but in the victim.